The Walrus, larger illustration commissions

Illustration by Marian Bantjes. This was for a memoir where a schizophrenic writer describes how he silences the voices in his head.

The A List

To celebrate their 40th anniversary, Anansi launched the A List, a series of their editorial highlights from the past years, repackaged in a new livery. I designed the logo, the livery, and commissioned and art directed the illustrations for two of the three years that the series ran.

The Walrus, photo essays

Photography by Nik Mirus. Many thanks to the kind people at the MUHC Archives.

When the Royal Victoria hospital had to move, the archivists discovered a trove of amazing treasures which staff had been squirrelling away in various corners of the old building for the past one hundred years.

This is part of a much larger body of work that Benoit started shooting almost right after the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. Benoit has also exhibited this, in among other places, at the Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal.

We commissioned this essay on circus arts in Montreal from Roger a year before we ran it, so that we could run it to coincide with the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival, and Roger spent that whole year adding to the stock of images, and the story.

Animated .gif for the Walrus' tablet edition. The illustration is a nod to the lost neon splendors of Vancouver, and the landscape is based on Granville Street from the 1940s, looking south from Hastings.